Drew Barrymore Quotes

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

I’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually.

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don’t have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.

Happiness takes work. It doesn’t always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn’t fall prey to being sad. I don’t want sad, I can’t be sad, I don’t want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.

My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I’m not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don’t feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment’s going to hit.

I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.

When you’re young, you’re always wondering when you’re actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There’s a danger to feeling like an adult… like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it’s really nice.